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From: mark@calvin..westford.ccur.com (Mark Thompson)
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Subject: Re: A3090 tape driver ??(Re: BTN 2.0 Tape handler)
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Date: 25 Apr 91 21:06:57 GMT
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In article <41542@cup.portal.com> DrBob@cup.portal.com (Robert A Rethemeyer) writes:
>> [Mark Thompson posting deleted]
>
>I believe these gentlemen's difficulties are different than yours, and
>different from each other's.  I sent them email, but have not received
>any response.

Bob,

I tried responding via DrBob@cup.portal.com and sun!portal!cup.portal.com!DrBob
but both bounced back in my face. Seems my mailer gives me about as much
trouble as BTN :-).  Here is what I wrote:

Thanks for the extremely informative letter. I had been avoiding the
giga-bytes of bandwidth on the "reselection" bug because I have been
successfully using multiple hard drives with the 2091 for over a year (Quantum
Prodrives and a 280M Maxtor). I guess it has finally reared its ugly head on
the Archive Viper 2525. I'll have to see what I can do about disabeling
reselection tonight. I'll let ya know what happens. Thanks again for the
info, and more importantly the much needed tape driver.

Anyway, the Archive Viper 2525 docs I have say you can change the disconnect
size but make no mention of being able to disable it. I have not been able
to play around with it much since my machine has been tied up rendering a 3D
animation 24 hours a day for the past 4 weeks (over 1000 24bit frames hence the
need for tape backup). After Saturday it will be done and I can get back to it
but I don't expect much unless Tim Jones at Maynard Electronics, possibly
someone from Commodore, or you can shed some additional light on this matter.

>I know a couple people who have exchanged Unix TAR tapes with BTN, no problem.

When it didn't lock up on me, it did this just fine.
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